Babylon 5 season 1The first season on DVD? check here: The first season episode guideMidnight on the Firing Line / season 1 - episode 1
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Richard Compton
Music by: Christopher Franke
The Narn attack a Centauri outpost at Ragesh III. Londo’s nephew Carn Mollari is taken prisoner in the attack. Psi Corps telepath Talia Winters arrives and has no luck trying to make friends with Ivanova. Garibaldi tracks Raiders who are attacking cargo ships.
Soul Hunter / season 1 - episode 2
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Music by: Christopher Franke
Shortly after the arrival of new doctor Stephen Franklin, an alien spacecraft of an unknown design tumbles through the hyperspace jump gate, on an uncontrolled collision course with the station. Sinclair manages to retrieve the ship just before it collides with the station, and its sole occupant is taken to the medlab. Ambassador Delenn reacts with horror at the new arrival, describing him as a Soul Hunter, a figure feared in Minbari lore.
Born to the Purple / season 1 - episode 3
Written by: Doug Petrie
Written by: Lawrence G. DiTillio
Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Music by: Christopher Franke
Londo stalls negotiations with the Narn - and infuriates G'Kar - when he wishes simply to partake of a seedy bar whose agile young Centauri dancer intrigues Londo; when he winds up in bed with her, talks are delayed even further. But the girl is in the employ of an information trader who plans on using her to get to Londo's Purple Files, detailing various dirt on many Centauri families - information the Narn Regime would pay handsomely for in order to gain blackmail material against their former masters.
Infection / season 1 - episode 4
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Richard Compton
Music by: Christopher Franke
The famous archaeologist Dr. Vance Hendricks arrives on Babylon 5. He asks his old friend Dr. Franklin for help to study ancient alien artifacts he has acquired. His assistant accidentally activates the artifacts and Dr.Hendricks is transformed into a living weapon, programmed to destroy every creature it sees as "genetic impure". It's up to commander Sinclair to stop it.
The Parliament of Dreams / season 1 - episode 5
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Music by: Christopher Franke
ir to stop it. Amidst a week of cultural exchange in which various cultures' religious and philosophical views are demonstrated, Garibaldi notices the arrival of Catherine Sakai, Sinclair's old flame from the space academy on Earth. While Sinclair tries to come to grips with his past, Ambassador G'Kar's past gets a grip on him as an old adversary from the Narn home world has diverted all his resources to killing G'Kar. The sudden arrival of a new aide makes the ambassador understandably nervous, and no matter what steps he takes to ensure his own security, someone seems to be one step ahead of G'Kar at every turn...
Mind War / season 1 - episode 6
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Music by: Christopher Franke
Jason Ironheart, a fugitive from the Earth Alliance's military Psi Corps, arrives on Babylon 5, the gigantic intergalactic space station. He is a gifted telepath who was the subject of a psychological experiment to expand the limits of psychic powers with special drugs and therapy. Two Psi Cops, Mr. Bester and Ms. Kelsey, searching for Ironheart, arrive soon after and demand that Station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi help them find him.
The War Prayer / season 1 - episode 7
Written by: D.C. Fontana
Directed by: Richard Compton
Music by: Christopher Franke
Members of the Home Guard, an anti-alien, “Earth first” movement, begin attacking non-humans on Babylon 5. The victims include a Minbari poet who is a friend of Delenn, and a teenage Centauri couple who have fled to the station to avoid arranged marriages. Ivanova’s former lover Malcolm arrives on the station and wants to reconcile with her. However, she learns that he is behind the Home Guard attacks and works with Sinclair and Garibaldi to trap and arrest him and his group.
And the Sky Full of Stars / season 1 - episode 8
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Janet Greek
Music by: Christopher Franke
Two mysterious men arrive onboard and kidnap Sinclair. They wish to know what took place during the final 24 hours of the Battle of the Line; a period for which Sinclair has no memory. Sinclair is drugged and placed in a virtual reality machine and begins to re-live the final battle of the Earth-Minbari War.
Deathwalker / season 1 - episode 9
Written by: Lawrence G. DiTillio
Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Music by: Christopher Franke
Waiting for a Narn representative to arrive at the station, Na'Toth spots a woman she claims is a war criminal who committed atrocities upon her family during conflicts 30 years ago and viciously attacks her. Sinclair discovers that the victim of the assault would indeed appear to be Jha'dur, a Dilgar Warmaster whose hideous biological experiments took the lives of thousands.
Believers / season 1 - episode 10
Written by: David Gerrold
Directed by: Richard Compton
Music by: Christopher Franke
Dr. Stephen Franklin, chief medical officer on the space station Babylon 5, examines Shon, the young child of a visiting alien family. He tell the parents, M'ola and Tharg, that a simple operation is needed to remove a blockage from Shon's throat. However, the family's ancient religion dictates that any puncture of the body allows the spirit to escape, leaving a carcass that can't be redeemed by their God. Dr. Franklin insists that Shon will die without the procedure, but they refuse to give the doctor permission to operate.
Survivors / season 1 - episode 11
Written by: Marc Scott Zicree
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Music by: Christopher Franke
With a visit from the recently re-elected President of the Earth Alliance looming in the immediate future, preparations are in full swing, including maintenance on a docking area that will be the home of a new fighter squadron being brought to Babylon 5 by the President. An explosion in this area brings the President's chief of security, a woman whose father was killed in an incident 17 years ago engineered by criminals to frame Garibaldi, aboard the station to investigate.
By Any Means Necessary / season 1 - episode 12
Written by: Kathryn M. Drennan
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Music by: Christopher Franke
A substandard microchip in a piece of docking equipment causes an explosion in the docking bay. The explosion destroys a Narn ship carrying a sacred plant necessary for G’Kar’s observance of the Days of G’Quon. Overworked dockworkers who are already upset due to the docking guild’s small budget stage a work stoppage, prompting Earth Gov to send a labor negotiator.
Signs and Portents / season 1 - episode 13
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Janet Greek
Music by: Christopher Franke
The Centauri Lady Ladiera and her nephew, Lord Kiro, visit B5. The Lady has visions of the station’s destruction and warns that her companion that he will be killed by shadows. An enigmatic human named Mr. Morden visits each ambassador and asks the question, “What do you want?” Seekers working for Londo finally locate the Centauri relic The Eye, which has been missing for several years.
TKO / season 1 - episode 14
Written by: Lawrence G. DiTillio
Directed by: John C. Flinn III
Music by: Christopher Franke
A spaceliner just arriving from Earth carries blasts from two of the crew's respective pasts - Rabbi Yosef Koslov has come to Babylon 5 bearing a legacy from Ivanova's late father, for whom she has yet to sit shiva; and discredited boxing champ Walker Smith, an old friend of Garibaldi's, has come on board to enter the Mutai, a deadly one-on-one freestyle martial arts competition open only to selected alien races.
Grail / season 1 - episode 15
Written by: Christy Marx
Directed by: Richard Compton
Music by: Christopher Franke
Aldous Gajic, a spiritual crusader on a quest for the mystic "Holy Grail," arrives on Babylon 5 to consult with the various alien ambassadors. Explorers wishing to cure the evils of mankind have sought it for hundreds of years. Gajic's quest has taken him from the forgotten sanctuaries of Earth to every inhabited galaxy.
Eyes / season 1 - episode 16
Written by: Lawrence G. DiTillio
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Music by: Christopher Franke
Two shady individuals arrive from Earth and begin asking questions about Sinclair and the station's command staff. Though they start out under the pretense of being corporate investigators, Garibaldi discovers that they are an Earth Force Colonel and a Psi Corps telepath. Colonel Ben Zayn cuts to the chase very quickly - there is something wrong with B5's command crew, and he wants all of them to submit to his companion's mind scan so he can find out what.
Legacies / season 1 - episode 17
Written by: D.C. Fontana
Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Music by: Christopher Franke
A Minbari war cruiser arrives at B5 bringing the body of Brammer, a legendary Minbari general and one of the Minbari's heroes of the Battle of the Line. Garibaldi expresses concerns that the tour could be a prelude to a new surge of Minbari hostility. Elsewhere on B5, a 12-year-old orphan is caught trying to steal food in the Zocalo, but when she suddenly crumples to the ground clutching her head, Ivanova puts her under arrest, and at once a feud begins between the first officer and Talia, who reveals that the girl is an emerging telepath who should be trained by the Psi Corps, to which Ivanova objects in the strongest possible terms.
A Voice in the Wilderness (1) / season 1 - episode 18
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Janet Greek
Music by: Christopher Franke
Sinclair and Ivanova discover that the uninhabited plant Babylon 5 orbits may not be so uninhabited after all. When they go to investigate, an earthquake traps them in an alien cavern deep underground.
A communications blackout of Mars deepens Garibaldi's concern for Lise, the woman he still loves. Delenn's is visited by her old mentor Draal.
A Voice in the Wilderness (2) / season 1 - episode 19
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Janet Greek
Music by: Christopher Franke
Sinclair and Ivanova bring back a 500-year-old alien they found inside Epsilon 3. The planet begins to self destruct, threatening the station with certain destruction unless someone takes the alien's place in the Great Machine. Earth sends a warship to take control of the situation. Garibaldi's learns that Lise is safe, but not all the news is good.
Babylon Squared / season 1 - episode 20
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Music by: Christopher Franke
A spaceship is launched from Babylon 5 to investigate a powerful energy source in the galaxy, known as Sector 14. The ship is enveloped in a white light and the pilot dies after setting the ship's automatic return guidance system. Station commander Jeffrey Sinclair, Lieutenant Command Susan Ivanova and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi are surprise by the autopsy report. While the pilot's corpse looks normal, his internal organs have aged a hundred years.
The Quality of Mercy / season 1 - episode 21
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Lorraine Senna Ferarra
Music by: Christopher Franke
Ivanova discovers that Dr. Franklin has been operating a free clinic for dwellers of Down Below, the area of B5 where most of the unemployed eke out a poverty-stricken existence, and that he's been using some of his medlab supplies to do so. Not much later, Franklin himself learns of another free clinic being operated aboard the station, one that promises to heal everything. Franklin finds Dr. Laura Rosen, an aging physician who has discovered an alien device with an unknown purpose that seems to remove illness, disease and debilitation harmlessly.
Chrysalis / season 1 - episode 22
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by: Janet Greek
Music by: Christopher Franke
“Nothing is the same anymore.” Garibaldi uncovers a plot to kill EA President Louis Santiago and is seriously wounded trying to relay the information. Delenn begins an irreversible change. Londo asks a favor of Morden in dealing with Quadrant 37. G’Kar has concerns over the events in Quadrant 37, and leaves to investigate. Sinclair and Catherine decide to get married. report error and omissions here
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